Loadmate – Mate while you wait

Solve a quick chess puzzle while ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity writes its answer.

Waiting for an AI to finish its answer? Make your move. Loadmate turns the seconds (and minutes) you spend waiting for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity into chess practice. As soon as the AI starts thinking, a small chess puzzle slides in. When the answer is ready, Loadmate gets out of your way - or lets you finish the puzzle first. You decide. HOW IT WORKS • Ask your AI anything, as usual. • If the answer takes more than a couple of seconds, a puzzle appears in the corner. • Find the best move. When the answer is ready, the puzzle closes (configurable). FEATURES • 5,000+ hand-picked puzzles from beginner to master level • Puzzles adapt to your rating - get better, and they get harder • Hints, full solutions and retries • Step back and forth through the moves • Natural wooden move sounds (can be muted) • Four board themes, resizable and movable panel that remembers its place • Progress page with your rating over time and a history of every puzzle - replay any of them • Play a puzzle any time from the toolbar, on any website • Works as a guest instantly; optionally sign in with Google to keep your progress on every computer PRIVACY Loadmate never reads your AI conversations. It only notices whether the AI is currently writing. Your puzzle results and rating are stored so your progress is kept; you can permanently delete all of your data at any time from the Progress page. Loadmate is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Perplexity.